From lovely Nation of “Sensible” Gun Control, Spain
A 49-year-old American woman who lived in the southern Spanish city of Seville was killed, cut up into pieces and thrown into a river, police said Wednesday.
Remember Gun Control advocates say the United States is FAR more dangerous than Europe because of our rate of “Gun Death”. Thankfully this American woman’s death doesn’t count, so it might as well have not happened!
So I get home from work today and what’s there, but a box. I didn’t recognize the return address in New York. Was it a letter bomb? Anthrax? Nope, much better!
That’s a Dragon Leatherworks FlatJack Holster sent to me compliments of Dragon.
I suspect he got my address through Jay who named and reviewed this holster. His was for a S&W J-frame, mine is for a 1911. I gots a lot to say so here be the cut! Continue reading
So yesterday was election day and it looks like it was a VERY good day for Republicans in Massachusetts believe-it-or-not.
But the biggest victory of the day is outlined here by Jay. Our Attorney general who is hopelessly anti-gun and anti-justice (who also got trounced by Scott Brown for US Senate) did not have any challengers on the Republican ballot yesterday. There were a few men who were asking for a write-in yesterday to get the required 10,000 votes to be on the ballot in November.
Jim Mckenna was the victor and got the GOP Nominee on write-in. I’ve known of Jim for months, but I was unaware of how the primary write-in laws worked, so I was waiting until the general election to order my stickers for the ballot. I found out the night before and had written his information down on a card on my desk. My excuse is a mediocre one, but the wife was feeling good enough that she wanted to get out and vote that morning. I was paying so much attention to her comfort level that I left my damn card at home, and had a brain-fart in the polling booth on Mr. McKenna’s name and town of residence.
Well despite my ignorance and oversight, it looks like Jim McKenna will be on the ballot as a printed candidate in November, and he has my vote. He also has the right stance on the issues and rates 100% with the Gun Owners Action League of Massachusetts.
So good Luck Jim, tho I don’t think you’ll need it!
So despite everybody buying guns and cleaning out ammo counters, and pushing certain guns into the stratosphere in price, it seems that nationally violent crime went down. Dunno why criminals might not prey on people who are armed.
Oddly enough Mass did NOT join those stats.
The number of murders in Massachusetts increased by 3 percent between 2008 and 2009 with 172 murders reported last year, while the number of murders across the country went down by 7.3 percent to 15,241.
While the overall number of violent crimes declined across the country for a third straight year by 5.3 percent from 2008 to 2009, Massachusetts saw an overall increase in violent crimes by 0.8 percent – 99.6 percent of which occurred in metropolitan areas.
(FYI Metropolitan areas have the strictest gun control in the state)
So when Joan Peterson of the Brady Campaign and Million Mom March says:
Move on and bring up some real things that can be done to reduce gun injuries and deaths before they happen!
She does kind of look like a fool….
Story sent to me by Bob S. Here
A Fort Worth man was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for killing his 16-year-old girlfriend and the couple’s unborn child after learning of the pregnancy.
First up, does this death count, even tho the murder weapon was a Glass Vase rather than a gun.
Also since the woman was pregnant does this count as one murder or two?
h/t Bob
Ok Off to Bed now. Let’s Play you out with some classic Ska!
Looks like the band hasn’t been very active since Ska died in 2000, too bad they look like they put on a killer show. I miss Ska.
Or at least I think I did! This post on Basking Sharks, and Ocean Sunfish gives me a tremendous amount of blog hits every single day from all over the world. I couldn’t imagine why it was, certainly didn’t seem to be people looking for Sharks or fish. Well I tried something
That seems like a logical winner. So now to stop floundering, how does one make it so I can see referring URLs from my sitemeter?
On a whim I checked my permit and noticed I’ve been carrying for two years and a few weeks. For about 5 years before that time I was a gun owner disarmed by the “May Issue” permitting system of Massachusetts. I had guns, I had skills, and I had a will to carry, but was legally denied.
I refused to look at houses in towns that were hostile to gun owners like the previous towns I had lived in. When we moved I actually bought my current carry guns. I was carrying at home (A Mass gun owner may legally carry concealed on their own property with a restricted permit) when my new permit arrived. I put the permit in my pocket and walked across the street, then returned home.
How silly it is that a little piece of plastic somehow makes a difference, especially when places like Vermont, Alaska, Arizona, and most of Montana seem to do just fine without that silliness, and many states have permits that are little more than a NICS check and a fee.
And in these two years my gun has yet to have jumped out of its holster and shoot people, even when I have carried in areas posted “No Guns” (non-binding in Massachusetts), in places that serve alcohol, and places of worship (all not recognized in Mass Gun Laws).
For those who think we need more restrictions on our carry system, rather than less, I would note that their Emperor is Naked.
From Jay:
A British teenager who sent an email to the White House calling President Obama an obscenity was banned from America for life, The Sun reported Monday.
The FBI asked local cops to tell college student Luke Angel, 17, his drunken insult was “unacceptable.”…”I don’t remember exactly what I wrote as I was drunk. But I think I called Barack Obama a p***k. It was silly — the sort of thing you do when you’re a teenager and have had a few.”
Go read the whole post and linked news story for some interesting discussion. Still How Ironic is it that our President banned a CHILD from ever coming to our nation for calling him a “Prick”…talk about self-fulfilling prophecy, huh?
That’s like slugging your wife in the jaw because she had the gall to call you a “Wife Beater”.
Way-to-go Barry-O! FYI The Kid’s right!
You’ll note that anti-gun activists will do ANYTHING to avoid discussing defensive gun uses. You see they often tout the 30,000 gun deaths per year (which include justifiable homicides by both Police and private citizens) but they always spin a gun as a tool used by bad people to do bad things. Never will they talk about Police killing a dangerous criminal to protect innocent lives, and under no circumstances will they talk about a private citizen defending their lives from violence.
A gun must ALWAYS be used to TAKE lives, never to SAVE or PROTECT them (Police is a VERY sticky wicket, as we don’t arm our cops so they can murder on public pay…but they can’t say WHY cops carry a sidearm, and often an “Assault Weapon”, branded “Patrol Rifle” to confuse, in their day-to-day of protecting and serving the public). Some will attempt to belittle the numbers, claiming that defensive gun uses are very rare. Still Joan Peterson of the Brady Campaign and the Million Mom March, shows a brief glimmer of honesty.
That’s your gig, not mine. My focus is what you described above. Simply because you don’t or won’t agree that it has any validity doesn’t mean I should change my focus. It’s my blog. I won’t be blogging about defensive use of guns so don’t wait for it.
In other words, she knows it exists, but it doesn’t suit her needs, so its irrelevant to her. I guess she doesn’t care about human life!
